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...Nine. The Democratic Party, therefore, stands to take a one-seat cushion (44 seats to 43) into the nine remaining Senate races. To gain a tie situation (in which Vice President Nixon's vote would give Republicans control of the Senate), the G.O.P. must win in five of these crucial contests...
Playboy. Most of his time he spent at Cannes, on the French Riviera, where he had bought the palatial Château de Thorenc (reported purchase price: $250,000). In his garage were a pale blue Lincoln convertible, a black Citroen limousine, a blue Simca "Gordoni" one-seat racer, a sleek Italian two-seater, a Simca-8 sports model. He also kept several motorcycles. He insisted that every engine run "as accurately as a watch...
...only distribution method which makes absolutely certain that everyone gets a good seat in the Stadium at some time in his college career--and correspondingly a mediocre seat at some other time--is the other proposal on the ballot : elimination of the artificial "cheering section" and of the preferential one-seat application...
...One morning last week a new all-metal, twin-motored monoplane, bright with red, white & blue Air Corps paint, was rolled out on the runway at Los Angeles' Municipal Airport. From a distance grease monkeys and pilots rubbered at her sleek, narrow fuselage, her one-seat pilot cabin, her tricycle landing gear. To trained ears the roar of her motors indicated an unusual concentration of horsepower...
...there is so much to commend, it is perhaps captious to find anything to criticize. But come complaints there have been which as such deserve attention even if the grounds on which they are based are invalid. Some undergraduates have found fault with the arrangement by which Graduate School one-seat applicants have been seated next to the cheering section and in a better location than the majority of undergraduates. Such an objection is perfectly natural on the part of undergraduates who feel that the center of the field should be reserved for those who are naturally most interested...